Steffen Kjaersgaard, a team-mate of Lance Armstrong's at US Postal from
2000-03, will not face sanctions, despite admitting to using
performance-enhancing drugs, Norwegian anti-doping authorities said on
Monday.

Pulling power: Steffen Kjaersgaard does a turn on the front during stage seven of the 2001 Tour de FrancePhoto: GETTY IMAGES

By PA, edited by John MacLeary

12:06PM BST 08 Apr 2013

The Norwegian admitted doping between 1998 and 2003 at a news conference last October, one day after the International Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed it would not appeal against the stripping of Armstrong's seven Tour de France titles.

However, Anti-Doping Norway said in a statement that an eight-year statute of limitations applied to Kjaersgaard's doping offences and as the last transgression took place in 2003, he would not face any further action.